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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

When I got to my first airbase my job was lugging electronics boxes on and off fighter planes under the broiling hot Thailand sun, to bring them into the technicians inside the air-conditioned shop, to troubleshoot and fix. Solutions From Hands On.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

My first week on the base… our shop chief announced: “We’re looking for some volunteers to go to Thailand.” Two weeks later I was lugging heavy boxes across the runway under the broiling Thailand sun. Eighteen months after arriving in Thailand, I was managing a group of 15 electronics technicians. You get to make your own luck.

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Steve Blank

MAY 24, 2010

In the year and a half I was in Thailand I climbed in and out of the cockpits of F-4’s , F-105 Wild Weasels and A-7’ s. And a few months later at my base in Thailand the same thing happened again. When I came home from Thailand I was stationed on a B-52 bomber base. B-52 Egress Training.

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Thirty-Six Years Later

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AUGUST 7, 2009

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

After been stationed at three fighter bases in Thailand ( Ubon , Udorn and Korat ) and working on Electronic Warfare suites on F-4’s, A-7’s, F-105’s and AC-130’s, I got orders to report to a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bomber base in Alpena Michigan. Imagine how hot, humid and unbearable the weather was in Thailand.

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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Thailand: Bats, Moths and John Scoggins I was 19 in 1973 and in Thailand in the Air Force working on electronic warfare equipment on fighter planes, gunships and Wild Weasels, at the tail end of the Vietnam War. So this post is how I came to write “The Secret History of Silicon Valley&#. (I’ll So here it is in five parts.

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Requiem For A Roommate

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 18, 2010

When I got back from Thailand the war was winding down and Michael was now in the University of Michigan Law School (having finished his undergrad degree in 3-years.) Each of his letters ended with him reminding me that I was destined for a different career.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2010

I was 20 years old in Thailand repairing electronic countermeasures receivers on the “graveyard” shift (midnight-to-eight in the morning.) This time what was meant as a private joke accidentally ended up involving the entire U.S. Air Force Pacific Command in the middle of the Vietnam War. The Night Shift.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Finally, I had an answer to the question I had asked 35 years earlier when I was in Thailand: “How did electronic warfare get started?&# Apparently, the Office of Scientific Research thought that Stanford’s engineering department was second rate.)

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The Path of Our Lives

Steve Blank

JULY 8, 2014

My roommate, Glen, would become my best friend in Florida and Thailand as we were sent to different air bases in Southeast Asia. In Thailand I even figured out how to sneak off base for a few days, cross Thailand via train, visit him in his airbase and convince everyone I had been assigned to do so (not that easy with a war on.)

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Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. I hate business plan competitions.

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The Seven Days of Christmas

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 24, 2009

As a 20-year old in Thailand in the middle of the chaos of the Vietnam War, my days were filled being a infinitesimal part of the synchronized machinery of maintaining, arming, and launching row after row of fighter planes parked in their revetments –. My kids are now almost the age I was long ago at another Christmas. So This is Christmas.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

These components were the heart of the electronic warfare equipment I have worked on; including fighters in Thailand and on B-52 bombers. When I read the funny names of these microwaves devices… Backward wave oscillators, TWT’s, Magnetrons…long silent memories came back. After 20 years, the story started coming home for me.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

My first week on the base our shop chief announced: “We’re looking for some volunteers to go to Thailand.” While we were living the good life in Thailand, the Army and Marines were pounding the jungle every day in Vietnam. Others wisely remembered the first rule in the military: never volunteer for anything.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

My first week on the base our shop chief announced: “We’re looking for some volunteers to go to Thailand.” While we were living the good life in Thailand, the Army and Marines were pounding the jungle every day in Vietnam. Others wisely remembered the first rule in the military: never volunteer for anything.

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Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most of the fighter planes used to support the war were based in Thailand , or from aircraft carriers (or for some B-52 bombers, in Guam.) While we were living the good life in Thailand, the Army and Marines were pounding the jungle every day in Vietnam. Life in a War Zone. In the early 1970’s the U.S. Some of them saw death up close.

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